Essentially, the popular musician in America must learn that his basic job is to entertain people, to make them forget their sorrows… — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical.… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
As a Jew and a psychologist, I understand the stress that religious communities feel in connection with questioning of circumcision... I raise… — Ronald Goldman Copy Share Image
How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is… — John Leo Copy Share Image
I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I… — Missi Pyle Copy Share Image
Americans who read and think are patriots of the first order. The kind who know enough to roll their eyes whenever anyone… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
There are children in America who are going to be separated from their parents 'cause their parents are going to be deported… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves… — John Spratt Copy Share Image
The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America--the uttermost limits of the… — Eugene Sue Copy Share Image
After Bush was elected in 2004 - please note that I didn't say 're-elected' - and I was walking around in my… — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Taking offense has become America's national pastime; being theatrically offended supposedly signifies the exquisitely refined moral delicacy of people who feel entitled… — George Will Copy Share Image
The establishment of religious freedom was no less momentous an achievement than the clearing of the great forest or the winning of… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
In April 1917 the illusion of isolation was destroyed, America came to the end of innocence, and of the exuberant freedom of… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The pro-gun advocates point to the 2nd amendment of America's Constitution, citing Americans' right to bear arms as a protection against tyrants.… — Max Keiser Copy Share Image
I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in… — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The way to an American economic comeback, the way to help those out of work today find a paycheck, is to unleash… — Rob Portman Copy Share Image
“As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
The America that I think most Americans would want, most economists on the right or left would want, is one in which… — Adam Davidson Copy Share Image
I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America,… — David Oshinsky Copy Share Image
When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I think the spirit of America, one American wanting to make another American's life better, or internationally our desire to see countries… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
[America] doesn't have an emphasis anymore on original discovery. Everything is based on teaching and learning for tests. Memorizing what you are… — Kesha Rogers Copy Share Image
“As I now see it, America had no business involving itself in a series of distant convulsions where the ideas, variously interpreted,… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the president, a person of serious religious faith, the gloves came off. Mel Gibson… — Daniel Lapin Copy Share Image
I'm so humbled and honored to be chosen to represent myself as a black woman to America, and I look at it… — Rachel Lindsay Copy Share Image
America's entire war on terror is an exercise in imperialism. This may come as a shock to Americans, who don't like to… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
America is a land of healthy appetites. It is not in the American character to live in order to eat. Rather, the… — Ludwig Bemelmans Copy Share Image
My photography is very European. In America, I always get the sense that people are comforted by understanding what they're looking at.… — Anton Corbijn Copy Share Image
Duran is a mythological figure in Latin America. He grew up in a time of turbulence because Panama was basically occupied by… — Edgar Ramirez Copy Share Image
The musicians, Duke Ellington, his thing was not about separating himself from the rest of America. Louis Armstrong - go to the… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
If I think about most of America, and maybe I'm terribly wrong...but I think most of America would say that they're not… — Tim Gunn Copy Share Image
The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those… — Paul Ryan Copy Share Image
“When the time comes, & I hope it comes soon, to bury this era of moral rot & the defiling of our… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor.… — Aamir Khan Copy Share Image
The truth is that the materialistic paternalism of the present day, if allowed to go on unchecked, will rapidly make of America… — John Gresham Machen Copy Share Image
It seems like election 2016 has been a whole lot about a person who's very high in the polls, that doesn't have… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
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